Pete Cordell wrote: >Dave Carver wrote: >> First, I'll state that I'm just a consumer of the spec, so I'm not a >> work group member, but I do work for a B2B standards organization that >> use schema extensively. >> >>Pete Cordell wrote: >>> And, I think only a parent could think that the union trick is not >>> ugly >>> :-) >> >> Actually, it has it's good and bad points, but I don't necessarily >> think it is an ugly trick, just one that is not published enough or written >> about enough. From my aspect, it takes educating my users about the >> extensibility and the various ways that it can be done. > >Doesn't the fact the users need educating more about it just prove that it is an insiders >trick? Well, AFAIK the "trick" originated with some folks at OASIS: they might take umbrage at being referred to as "insiders", especially where XML Schema is concerned :-). At least OASIS is where my XML language groups learned about it. Best regards, DavidReceived on Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:49:08 GMT
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